Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The museum will close at 4 pm on Christmas Eve (December 24) and New Year's Eve (December 31), and will be closed all day on Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year's Day (January 1).

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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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A lineup of anthropomorphic feelings

Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: Inside Out

When young Riley's family moves across the country, her inner Joy corrals her other feelings into helping her cope with a new life - and growing up.

Sun Mar 22 11:00 AM

The artists Akinsanya Kambon sits next to his sculpture of a long-necked figure

Screenings Conversations

The Hero Avenges: An Evening with Akinsanya Kambon

Join us for an evening celebrating the artist and his work, featuring a conversation between Kambon and Hammer curator Pablo José Ramírez, the premiere of a new documentary, and a book signing.

Sun Mar 22 2:00 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Mar 26 12:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Apr 2 12:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Apr 9 12:30 PM

Gene Kelly spins around a lamppost in the rain

Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: Singin' in the Rain

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time.

Sun Apr 12 11:00 AM

Berta Cáceres and four young men sit on a boulder in a river

Screenings Conversations

Water for Life

Water For Life tells the story of three extraordinary individual, all of whom refused to let government-supported industry take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric, or large scale industrial agriculture projects.

Tue Apr 14 7:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Apr 16 12:30 PM

After-Hours Tour: Monica Majoli on Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

UCLA Professor of Art History Zirwat Chowdhury leads an after-hours tour of the exhibition.

Thu Apr 16 6:00 PM

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826LA@Hammer: Screenwriting: Writing with Conflict

Want to write your own script? Then get ready for some conflict! Led by writer/director Marisa Hardwicke, students will learn how to construct engaging conflict-driven scenes that they can take to the screen.

Sun Apr 19 11:00 AM